The Most Helpful PSD to xHTML and CSS Tutorials

linkCreating a design in Photoshop may be somewhat tricky and time consuming, but every designer knows that it’s only the tip of the iceberg.  Once you come up with your perfect design, you have to figure out how in the world you’re going to turn it into useable code.  Sometimes the solution just presents itself easily, but most of the time, there are some serious headaches involved (“why is this working in Firefox and not IE?!!!!”).  So today, we’re going to look at the best and most helpful PSD to xHTML+CSS tutorials on the internet.  Hopefully it will increase your productivity and help you to create better user interfaces.

 

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Amazing Web Design Tutorials

Web design is rapidly moving towards being a freelancer dominated business.  The days of the big web design company creating every website ever known are over.  So today, we’re going to look at some of the best web design tutorials so that you can join the ever-growing number of freelancers who make significant money by creating and building websites.  This post will focus on the design aspect, but in the future, we’ll have more posts that cover coding your design in valid xHTML and CSS.  Check out the entire list, there’s a ton of them but they’re all excellent.

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27 Excellent Web Design Tutorials

For beginner web designers, design tutorials really help to understand the basic knowledge about web design.  Here is a collection of 27 layout design tutorials that will help you with designing a decent looking website. Some of them are really good!

http://dzineblog.com/2008/07/best-photoshop-layout-design-tutorials.html

The 50 Best Firefox Add-ons for Designers

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Mozilla Firefox is becoming more and more powerful tool in these days. Using right add-ons it will start to become a tool, You can`t live without as web-developer! Each of these plugins can make certain things easier and that`s especially important for web-developers, because searching for errors and optimizing your pages can be pretty painful and time-consuming process. And that`s the reason, why I looked over 100+ pages, to get overview which add-ons are used and recommended by amateurs.

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/development/the-best-50-firefox-add-ons-for-web-developers/

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Plug-ins for Wordpress

TutorialBlog had a chance to try out several SEO plugs in for WordPress and here’s a list of some they think are worthwhile. This is one of the “your mileage may vary” things, so if you’re using plugins you think are better, please drop a note into comments and set me straight.

http://tutorialblog.org/using-wordpress-how-to-enhance-your-sites-search-engine-optimization-with-plugins/

15 Amazing Free Wordpress Themes

Sorting out the good Wordpress themes from the bad can be a really challenge. Luckily, the guys over at PSWish compiled 15 amazing themes for designers. It helps illustrate the power of Adobe Photoshop for creating web designs.

http://pswish.com/15-free-highest-quality-wordpress-theme-designed-in-photoshop/